Architects tackle the daunting challenges of improving travel in the airport of the future.

What's next for air-travel design? In this special Continuing Education section, we examine buildings that ease passenger aggravation and respond to the local culture and environment.

When the TWA Terminal by Eero Saarinen opened in 1962, it embodied the allure of air travel.

Seven up-and-coming aviation projects, in various stages of planning and construction, will soon be ready for takeoff.

In New York, a small terminal's garden helps counter travel anxiety.

An otherworldly new terminal, just opened in Beijing, alleviates pressure on the capital city's existing airport. Read our story from the July airports issue, and watch a new video about the project.  

In Singapore, designers reinvent the airport experience with deft engineering, unusual geometry, and a vast indoor garden.

Completed in 1962 and abandoned in 2001, Eero Saarinen’s bird-like building at JFK Airport in New York now serves as a spectacular lobby for the new hotel.

The $1.26 billion development, which opens to the public today, combines retail, restaurants, entertainment venues, and lush gardens under a vast toroidal glass roof.